1 The rule of the Perpetual Adoration is so rigid in its nature that it alarms, vocations recoil before it, the order receives no recruits.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI—END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS 2 The unique exhibition which you gave of your pupils engaged in their industrial vocations was not only artistic but thoroughly impressive.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XVII. 3 He answered, to go to sea again, in his old vocation.
4 Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is he.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 5 Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business.
6 Be it said, that in this vocation of whaling, sinecures are unknown; dignity and danger go hand in hand; till you get to be Captain, the higher you rise the harder you toil.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin. 7 What with women and wine and the excitement of his vocation, a man could afford to rest now and then.
8 David smiled sadly, though not without a momentary gleam of pleasure, at this allusion to his beloved vocation.
9 Deeply regretting this weakness on the part of a sister muse, we shall at once retire from her sacred precincts, within the proper limits of our own humble vocation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 10 In fact, Sam considered oratory as his vocation, and never let slip an opportunity of magnifying his office.
11 "Sluggard"--why, it is a calling and vocation, it is a career.
12 To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who knew her.
13 Our gracious sovereign recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it.
14 "My vocation is a different one," thought Princess Mary.
15 My vocation is to be happy with another kind of happiness, the happiness of love and self-sacrifice.